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Show 962 MR. G. F. HAMPSON ON THE CLASSIFICATION [Dec. 17, Genus RAPHIPTERA, nov. Palpi extending about three times length of head and thickly clothed with hair; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled; proboscis well developed; frons flat; antennae of female nearly simple. Fore wing with the apex extremely produced and acute; vein 4 absent; 7 absent; 8, 9 stalked; 11 absent. Hind wing with veins 4 and 6 absent; the cell completely open. Fig. 44. Raphiptera minimella, ?. Type. RAPHIPTERA MINIMELLA, Rob. Ann. N. Y. Lye. ii. 315. U.S.A. Genus MESOLIA. Mesolia, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 282. Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair and extending about twice the length of head; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled; frons with a conical projection; tibiae with the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded; the outer margin produced from apex to vein 5; vein 7 when present stalked with 8, 9; 10, 11 when present free. Hind wing with vein 4 usually absent; 6 from upper angle; the upper margin of cell widely separated from 8, 7 curving upwards to anastomose with 8. Fig. 45. Mesolia pandavella, cf • f. SECT. I. Fore wing with veins 7 and 11 present. A. Both wings with vein 4 absent. a. Antennae of male thickened and flattened. Type. (1) MESOLIA PANDAVELLA, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 282. N.W.Himalayas; Punjab; S.India; Ceylon. b. Antennae of male serrate. (2)fMESOLiA PLURI MELLA, Wlk. xxvii. 162. Jamaica ; San Domingo. |